A former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Dennis Amachree, has claimed that Nigeria’s former military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, died from a cardiac arrest during an intimate encounter rather than poisoning.
Amachree made the claim in his newly released memoir, DSS @40: My Journey Behind the Shield, excerpts of which were published on Tuesday.
According to the retired intelligence officer, who served as Assistant Director of Operations and Intelligence at the Lagos DSS Command when Abacha died in June 1998, the former military ruler suffered a fatal cardiac arrest in the early hours of June 8, 1998, while at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
He rejected several conspiracy theories that have surrounded Abacha’s death for nearly three decades, insisting that the former Head of State died of natural causes during sexual intercourse.
Amachree alleged that Abacha’s girlfriend visited the Aso Rock Guest House that
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